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Published on: January 4, 2016
(H3O)HCs2Nb(IO3)9 and SrNbO(IO3)5: a facile synthetic method using hydrofluoric acid as a solubilizer
Fei-Fei Mao1, Chun-Li Hu, Jin Chen
1State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, P. R. China. mjg@fjirsm.ac.cn.
Abstract:
By using hydrofluoric acid as a solubilizer, the first alkali-metal niobium iodate and an alkali-earth metal niobium iodate, i.e. (H3O)HCs2Nb(IO3)9 and SrNbO(IO3)5, have been obtained. An obvious cation-controlled polarity shift is observed in the Ae/A-Nb5+-IO3 system. (H3O)HCs2Nb(IO3)9 gives a strong second harmonic generation (SHG) signal about 6 times that of KH2PO4 (KDP), making it a promising nonlinear optical (NLO) material.
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